Re: Undetected JRE

[PhilipNienhuis]

Bradley Kennedy wrote
>> On 2017-12-16, at 23:43, Daryl Lee <

> daryl@

> > wrote:
>> 
>> Today I had yet another occasion to build up a Windows workstation from
>> scratch.  When I got to the step of installing Octave (4.2.1) the
>> installer told me it couldn't fine a Java JRE, even though I have Java
>> 9.0.1 installed, as evidenced by the output of
>> 
>> > java -version
>> 
>> Is that anything for me to worry about?  At first glance, it looks normal
>> (working GUI, working plots).

Issues arise when mixing a 64-bit Octave with a 32-bit JRE, or vice versa.
Did you check that?

Last time I looked (years ago) OpenJDK builds for Windows proved to be very
unstable.


>  
> Hi there Daryl,
> 
> There should be (mostly) no issue. We ran Octave 4.2.1 on super computers
> for months without Java due to a broken link. You obviously however, can’t
> use Java based components.
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v4.2.1/Java-Interface.html#Java-Interface
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v4.2.1/Java-Interface.html#Java-Interface>
> 
> I had a patch made at one point to let you change the Java directory at
> run time (rather now it is set at compile time afaik) but I don’t think
> anyone was interested in it.

I can imagine that for Windows such a patch is obsolete as esp. on Windows
the place where Java lives is very well defined and uniform across Windows
versions, and easily uncovered by user programs.
AFAICR from last time I installed Java, the installer didn't even allow to
select the place where Java was to be installed.

For Linux and OSX things are quite different.

(Just curious) Where is that patch?

Philip



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